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[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks!



--- Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> Criterion just issued a superb 3-DVD edition of the
> film featuring a wealth 
> of contextual materials.  Highly reccomended, though
> it is quite expensive. 
> Visart or Netflick it.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, James Hepler wrote:
> 
> > Shame it's only playing tonight.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> grady wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is a fucking great movie--just incredibly
> >> gripping & also
> >>> profoundly "educational" about what goes on at
> the
> >> grassroots of an
> >>> armed insurgency. By "educational" I don't mean
> >> "dry and boring,"
> >>> either. The thing was shot verite-style, and
> >> (controversially) with
> >>> the cooperation of one of the leaders of the
> >> Algerian guerilla
> >>> resistance. It's an eerily realistic recreation
> of
> >> the actual events.
> >>>
> >>> Go see it tonight if at all possible:
> >>>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>>
> >>> Stolen Nation Film Series kicks off with a
> >> "celebration" of Bush's
> >>> inauguration with a screening of the formerly
> >> banned and recently
> >>> restored "Battle of Algiers."
> >>>
> >>> Thursday, January 20th at the North Carolina
> >> School of Science & Math,
> >>> ETC Auditorium
> >>> 8:15 PM, FREE
> >>>
> >>> Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 classic is considered
> one
> >> of the most
> >>> influential historic films about modern politics
> >> in the Middle East.
> >>> Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary
> >> style, the film is a
> >>> case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist
> >> attacks and the
> >>> brutal techniques used to combat them. The
> Battle
> >> of Algiers vividly
> >>> recreates a key year in the tumultuous struggle
> >> for Algerian
> >>> independence from the occupying French colonial
> >> forces in the 1950s.
> >>>
> >>> Nominated for 3 Academy Awards (Best Screenplay,
> >> Best Foreign Film and
> >>> Best Director) and winner of the Grand Prize at
> >> the Venice Film
> >>> Festival, this film also bears the distinction
> of
> >> being banned in
> >>> France in 1965 and screened by the Pentagon
> prior
> >> to the invasion of
> >>> Iraq in 2003. The Battle of Algiers is a film
> with
> >> astonishing
> >>> relevance - the echoes of which can still be
> heard
> >> today.
> >>>
> >>> For more info about the movie, the trailer and
> >> directions go to:
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.geocities.com/stolen_nation_film_series/
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have heard that this movie is used by the
> Pentagon
> >> to train for
> >> dealing with insurgencies.  I doubt Our Leader
> has
> >> seen it.  Maybe if
> >> Arnold does a remake.
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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